From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/18/1862, p. 2, c. 3

Escape of Prisoners.
- Three prisoners, incarcerated by order of the Government, effected
their escape from the jail of Henrico county on Wednesday night
last, by working a hole through the wall of their cell, and letting
themselves down to the yard, whence it was a comparatively easy
matter to get into the street. One of them is George W. Twells,
formerly a lieutenant in the Ben McCulloch Rangers, arrested on
suspicion of disloyalty to the South; another is O. C. Stanton, a
native of a Northern State; and the other 3d Sergeant Lawson, lately
in the Confederate service on the Peninsula. Up to the present time
they have eluded arrest, and are probably endeavoring to make their
way to the enemy’s lines.